Also affects the availability of some environment-specific vanilla assets. This will vary depending on what assets the creator included.Affects the cubemap which is visible in the water and highly specular asset reflections. Not all styles will affect all zone types (for example, the European/Vanilla style will affect high-density residential, commercial, and offices, but won’t work on low-density zones). Select the ‘District Style’ filter on the Steam Workshop. To find district styles in the Cities: Skylines Steam Workshop, select the ‘District Styles’ filter on the right side. This will cause your population to drop temporarily, so avoid making style changes to large swathes of zones all at the same time. Buildings disappear as they are torn down to be rebuilt in the new style you chose. However, note that any existing buildings will have to be torn down in order to be replaced with its counterparts featuring your new style. It’s possible to implement district styles both on empty zones (those that have yet to grow any buildings on them) as well as those already with grown buildings. The same district before and after changing the style from default to European. Select the style that you want to implement for this district. There you’ll find a dropdown box for styles. Next, click the name of the district on the map to bring up its info panel.

You can ‘erase’ from the painted area by holding down the right mouse button instead. Paint a district where you want to implement the specific style by clicking and dragging over the area. Select the ‘Paint District’ tool in the Districts and Areas menu. While in game, click on the ‘Districts and Areas’ button in your menu, and select ‘Paint District’. Just bear in mind that the more district styles you have active, the more taxing it is on your system. The only one that comes with the game is European/Vanilla, but you can download many more from the Steam Workshop. The European/Vanilla district style in Content Manager. There you’ll find any district styles that you have installed toggle on any that you want to use. Step 1: Enable District Styles in the Content Managerįirst, you need to make sure that you have district styles available. Here’s a quick step-by-step guide on how to use them. This works independently of the map themes.įor example, even when playing on a tropical or temperate themed map, you can set specific districts to use the European district style. District styles are collections of assets that let you choose the appearance of zoned buildings in specific districts of your city.

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